Posted on 06/20/2005 7:20:29 AM PDT by veronica
FOXWORTHY [Jonah Goldberg]
From a reader:
This morning, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas appeared on the Imus in the morning show. (Thomas called in from Martha's Vineyard--small eyeroll) Imus mentioned something about Jeff Foxworthy and asked Thomas, "do you know who he is?" Thomas' answer was an instantaneous "no". Imus followed up, "do you know who Larry the cable guy is?" An even more emphatic "no". Imus and cohort Charles McCord spent the next 30 seconds jeering Thomas, "How can you be the editor of Newsweek and be so out of touch?"
I think this illustrates quite nicely the media elite/red state divide. I'd be willing to bet that more red staters know Foxworthy's name than know their own US Senators. I'm not saying that knowing who Jeff Foxworthy is is either a good thing or a bad thing--I just think that an editor of Newsweek magazine would have to go out of his way not to know the name. What else about Red State America does Mr Thomas not have a clue about? It's time to send Newsweek's foreign correspondents down South!!!
and Tater Tot! LOL!
PERFECTION in that post!
"If you deny any knowledge of Jeff Foxworthy while calling Don Imus from Martha's Vineyard, you might be a liberal elitist."
That's a best-selling book idea if I ever heard one! :)
"I believe...that if you can't say anything nice, you must be talking about Hillary Clinton..."
They call me tater salad...
Yeah... and I wasn't 'drunk-in-public'... they THREW me into public!
>>It's time to send Newsweek's foreign correspondents down South!!!
I'm from Massachusetts and will soon be going to Nashville (where they play both kinds of music, country AND western)
and Memphis (Elvis is everywhere, but especially there)
soon...looking forward to being in Red State America. Hell yeah!
"We got words in the South that y'all don't have anywhere else, like 'sensuous'. 'Sensuous up, get me a beer!' If
you have to move your transmission to take a bath...you
might be a redneck."
Liberal (folk) and conservative (country) comparison:
Folk: "If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns"
--Cheryl Wheeler
Country: "'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way/ And Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list/And the Statue of Liberty started shakin' her fist/
And the eagle will fly and there's gonna be hell..."
--Toby Keith
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